News aggregator app SmartNews’ latest feature aims to tackle doomscrolling

September 19, 2023
News aggregator SmartNews is today launching a new feature that it hopes will help to combat the anxiety associated with regularly consuming negative news — something often referred to as “doomscrolling.” Instead of encouraging impulsive scrolling through its headlines, the app’s new feature called SmartTake claims to offer a selection of uplifting stories, editor’s picks, […]

New SambaNova chip designed to handle 5 trillion parameter model

September 19, 2023
Ever since OpenAI released ChatGPT at the end of last year, terms like generative AI and large language models have been on everyone’s lips. But when you dig beneath the hype, large language models generally require a lot of expensive GPU chips to run. SambaNova is introducing a chip today that it purports will reduce […]

How Would a CBDC Affect Bitcoin and Other Crypto?

September 19, 2023
Central banks all over the world, including the Federal Reserve in the United States, have been considering the development and circulation of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). If you’re…

Unite for Mac releases a new version to turn website into web apps

September 19, 2023
Apple announced macOS Sonoma at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) earlier this year with the ability to turn websites into “web apps” and add them to the dock. In response, Unite, which offers similar functionality, has now released a new version with powerful customization options. Unite 5 comes with an easier flow to create an […]

Rocket Lab’s Electron suffers first failure in over two years

September 19, 2023
Rocket Lab’s 41st Electron mission on behalf of customer Capella Space ended in failure early Tuesday, with issues abruptly appearing after stage separation around 2-and-a-half minutes after launch. The live video feed of the rocket stopped working shortly after the second stage ignited its engine. Around 45 seconds after stage separation, the launch director declared, […]